Sunday, January 1, 2012


Wayang kulit
puppet is one of the top of Indonesian art and culture the nation's most prominent among the many works of other cultures. Role of puppet culture including art, sound art, music, speech arts, literary arts, painting, sculpture, and art is also symbolic. Puppet culture that continues to evolve from age to age, also a lighting media, propaganda, education, understanding of philosophy and entertainment. According to research by historians of culture, culture is a culture of authentic Indonesian puppet, especially in Java. The existence of wayang already centuries before the Hindu religion into the island of Java. Although the popular puppet story in today's society is an adaptation of literary works of India, namely Ramayana and Mahabharata, both parent in the puppet story undergone many changes and additions to adapt them to the original philosophy of Indonesia.

Adjustment of the concept of philosophy is also concerned at the Java community philosophical views on the status of the gods in the puppet. The gods in the puppet is no longer something that is free from wrong, but sepertijuga other God's creatures, sometimes act wrong, and could be a blunder. The presence of characters in the puppet clown-servants deliberately created the humanists Indonesian (Javanese cultural exact) to reinforce the concept of philosophy that in this world there is no creature that is really good, and that really jahat.Setiap beings always bears the elements of good and evil.
 
In a dissertation titled Bijdrage tot het van de kennis Javaansche Tooneel (1897), the Dutch cultural historian Dr. GA.J. Hazeau demonstrate his belief that the puppet show is a native of Java. Understanding of the dissertation of Dr. puppet. Hazeau it is walulang inukir (carved leather) and seen its shadow on the screen. Thus, wayang puppet is certainly as we know it today

The origin of puppets
Regarding the origin of this puppet, in the world there is an argument, the first idea that comes puppet and l; ahir first time on the island of Java, precisely in East Java. This opinion was adopted and raised in addition to researchers and experts in the nation of Indonesia, also a result of western research scholars. Dianatara western scholars belonging to this group, is Hazeau, Brandes, Kats, Renste, and Kruyt.

The reason they are strong enough. Among them, the art of puppet is still very closely related to sociocultural and religious state of the Indonesian people, especially the Javanese. Clown-servants, the most significant figures in the puppet, namely Semar, Gareng, Petruk, Bagong, there are only puppets in Indonesia, and not in another country. In addition, names and technical terms puppet shows, all from Java language (ancient), and not other languages​​.

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